Legacies of the developmental state for Japan’s information and communications industries

Next Generation Internet Policy in Japan, China and India

“…Japan's ICT policymakers worried that Japanese firms had fallen behind in the first Internet revolution of the 1990s compared with American and European companies (Anchordoguy 2005). Japanese industrial policy-makers saw the e-Japan strategy as a way for Japan to break away from the pack by moving quickly to the Next Generation Internet technologies (Tilton & Choi 2007). This would be a way, consistent with Japanese past practice, to promote Japan's national survival in a globalising world (Hall 2004).…”